View control system and view control method

• US 8,682,524 B2
• Filed: 06/22/2009
• Issued: 03/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Kitagawa, Eiji
• Primary Examiner(s): Black, Thomas
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lewandroski, Sara
• Application Number:
  US12/488,747
• Publication Number:
  US 20100030424A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,737 Days
• Field of Search: 701/1, 701/36, 455/566, 345/418, 345/676, 345/530
• US Class Current: 701/36
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/195 Blocking or enabling display functions
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/10 Input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/22 Display screens
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/29 Instruments characterised by the way in which information is handled, e.g. showing information on plural displays or prioritising information according to driving conditions
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/81 for controlling displays
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

A view control system is communicably connected to a display device for displaying data in accordance with an information resource. The view control system includes a view control device. The view control device includes a regulation determiner, a view regulator, and a resource data sender. The regulation determiner determines whether to regulate visible output of the information resource. The view regulator associates regulatory data with the information resource upon determining to regulate visible output of the information resource. The resource data sender sends resource data including the information resource, associated regulatory data, and a message conveying that visible output of the information resource is regulated. Either the message or data generated in accordance with the information resource is sent to the display device.

Claims

1. A view control system communicably connectable to a display device, the view control system comprising:

a view control device including;

a regulation determiner that determines whether to regulate, when a predefined condition is satisfied, visible output of an information resource, and

a view regulator that associates regulatory data with the information resource in resource data analyzable for generation of view data, for an indication that visible output of the information resource is regulated, according to the determination of the regulation determiner;

a display controller that analyzes the resource data, including the indication for the information resource associated with the regulatory data, to generate view data for a display which avoids, when the predefined condition is satisfied, generation of view data from the information resource associated with the regulatory data in the resource data;

a data reader that receives as the resource data a structured document containing link data indicative of a site where the information resource is stored;

a link data extractor that extracts the link data contained in a received structured document; and

a linked site reader that receives the information resource stored in the site indicated by the link data to send received information resource to the regulation determiner;

wherein

the regulation determiner determines whether to regulate, when the predefined condition is satisfied, visible output of the link data for the information resource,

the view regulator associates the regulatory data with the link data for the information resource upon the regulation determiner determining to regulate, when the predefined condition is satisfied, visible output of the information resource, and

the view control system is mountable on a vehicle, the display device being for providing visible output of information and the predefined condition is that the vehicle is moving according to a move determiner.

2. The view control system according to claim 1, wherein the move determiner and the display controller are included in the view control device, and the display controller receives resource data sent from a resource data sender, the view control device further including:

a view data generator that generates the view data in accordance with the structured document and the information resource,

a view data sender that sends the generated view data,

a status data receiver that receives status data capable of indicating a status of the vehicle,

wherein the move determiner determines whether the vehicle is moving in accordance with status data received from the status data receiver, and

the display controller controls the view data generator to;

generate view data in accordance with an information resource associated with the regulatory data upon the move determiner determining that the vehicle is moving, and

generate view data in accordance with an information resource without the regulatory data upon the move determiner determining that the vehicle is stopped,

the view control system further comprising;

a view provider including;

a view data receiver that receives the view data sent from the view data sender,

a display processor that sends received view data to the display device,

a status detector that detects a status of the vehicle to generate status data indicating a detected status,

a status data sender that sends generated status data to the status data receiver.

3. The view control system according to claim 1, wherein the view regulator adds the regulatory data to an element of the structured document, the element defining the link data to be regulated.

4. The view control system according to claim 1, wherein the view regulator generates a table storing the link data added with the regulatory data, the link data stored in the table being associated with location data of an element defining the link data in the structured document.

5. The view control system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a view manager including;

the display controller,

a view data generator that generates the view data in accordance with the structured document and the information resource,

a view data sender that sends the generated view data,

a status data receiver that receives status data capable of indicating a status of the vehicle, and

the move determiner that determines whether the vehicle is moving in accordance with status data received from the status data receiver,

wherein the display controller controls the view data generator to;

generate view data in accordance with an information resource associated with the regulatory data upon determining that the vehicle is moving, and

generate view data in accordance with an information resource without the regulatory data upon determining that the vehicle is stopped; and

a view provider including;

a view data receiver that receives the view data sent from the view data sender,

a display processor that sends received view data to the display device,

a status detector that detects a status of the vehicle to generate status data indicating a detected status,

a status data sender that sends generated status data to the status data receiver.

6. The view control system of claim 1, further comprising:

a display processor that outputs the generated view data to the display device, the view data generated in accordance with the structured document and the information resource.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program that causes one or more devices to execute a view control method, including:

receiving a structured document containing link data indicative of a site where the information resource is stored;

extracting the link data contained in a received structured document;

receiving the information resource stored in the site indicated by the link data;

determining whether to regulate, when a predefined condition is satisfied, visible output of the information resource;

associating, in the structured document, regulatory data with the link data of the information resource, upon determining to regulate, when the predefined condition is satisfied, visible output of the information resource; and

analyzing the structured document to generate, for a display, view data which avoids, when the predetermined condition is satisfied, generation of view data from the link data of the information resource associated with the regulatory data in the structured document,

wherein the display is mountable for a vehicle and the predefined condition is that the vehicle is moving according to a move determiner.

8. A view control method executed by a view control system communicably connected to a display device the view control method comprising:

receiving, by the view control system, a structured document containing link data indicative of a site where information resource is stored;

extracting the link data contained in a received structured document;

receiving the information resource stored in the site indicated by the link data;

determining whether to regulate, when a predefined condition is satisfied, visible output of the information resource;

associating, in the structured document, regulatory data with the link data of the information resource upon determining to regulate, when the predefined condition is satisfied, visible output of the information resource; and

analyzing the structured document to generate, for a display, view data which avoids, when the predetermined condition is satisfied, generation of view data from the link data of the information resource associated with the regulatory data in the structured document,

wherein the display device is mountable for a vehicle and the predefined condition is that the vehicle is moving according to a move determiner.